A Growing Following in Germany - The Dangerous Success of Radical Young Clerics

From DER SPIEGEL ^ | 02/22/2012 | By Matthias Bartsch, Maximilian Popp and Christoph Scheuermann

[VU4G10]

Imams in Germany have long tended to be older men who preach primarily in Turkish or Arabic. Now, though, officials are worried about a new breed of cleric: young, dynamic and followers of a radical brand of Islam. Their adherents are growing in number.

[tsomer]

Interesting article, as much for its quoting of “experts’” comments as for the phenomenon itself.

There is an implied alarm (mild), I guess, but no mention of the inevitable threat they pose. Their heads are still in the sand.

[FourPeas]

A number of Muslims feel that the German convert is too vain, and find it presumptuous for Vogel to drive to rallies in a VW SUV with the license plate number HAM-ZA 911. Vogel calls himself Abu Hamza, the name of a warrior who lived in the time of the Prophet Muhammad. The number stands for 9/11, the day of the terrorist attacks on the United States.

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In his speeches, Adhim condemns terror and violence.

How Muslim of him.

[bayouranger]

".. Vogel to drive to rallies in a VW SUV with the license plate number HAM-ZA 911. Vogel calls himself Abu Hamza, the name of a warrior who lived in the time of the Prophet Muhammad. The number stands for 9/11, the day of the terrorist attacks on the United States." "In his speeches, Adhim condemns terror and violence. Nevertheless, security services view the Al-Nur Mosque in Berlin, where he appears regularly, as a meeting place for militant Islamists. The mosque has received funding in the past from a Saudi Arabian foundation suspected of bankrolling terrorism." Nothing to see here at all. Nope. Nada. Fin.

[Misterioso]

Are there any Muslim clerics in your neighborhood? Can’t trust clerics anymore, I guess.

[bayouranger]

Yep, there’s one not too far from where I sit & that filthy koranimal doesn’t like me what-so-ever because I told the truth about islam in exchange in the local paper which left it fuming with jihad.

BTW - You shouldn’t trust any moslem. Any. All that “kill the infidel” stuff is real & they spew it out 5x a day to their fellow koranimals who proclaim how peaceful islam is to you face while seething with hatred at your existence/presence.

[Paladin2]

Seems like Jihad, Sharia, Mad Mo and the imams all need to be taken out of Islam for a proper reformation.

[Misterioso]

Koranimals. I dig it.